What we seem to be missing now is things like .. a lot of the artists (70s-80s "dad rock") I listen to have "the BBC sessions" LPs - or even better, The Peel Se

What we seem to be missing now is things like .. a lot of the artists (70s-80s "dad rock") I listen to have "the BBC sessions" LPs - or even better, The Peel Sessions. I've lost track of the number of artists that made it because Peel found them and gave them that spotlight. Being able to play whatever you want, whenever you want, is indeed fantastic. I'm not sure I'd want to go backwards from here either. But we've solved availability, I don't think we've solve discovery - I don't think algorithmically generated playlists replace John Peel. They seem to solve "everyone else has found X and you haven't", they don't solve "X haven't been found". So we end up back in this trap of "finding" the music the labels have decided to promote, rather than the artists that deserve to be found.